Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1250MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
3552 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Vega 56
+11100%
8960
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Oct 2008
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
1138 MHz
Base Clock
-
1250 MHz
Boost Clock
-
786 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR3
2048bit
Memory Bus
128bit
402.4GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
3584
Shading Units
32
224
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
80.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
17.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.960 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
210W
TDP
23W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
G96C
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
GCN 5.0
Architecture
Tesla
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
55 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0